René Sédillot (2 November 1906 – 21 October 1999) was a French journalist and historian.

Life

Born in

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
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. He worked for the financial press, joining '' L'Information Boursiere'' in 1928 and becoming editor until the paper folded in 1940. In 1945 he became editor of the weekly ''La Vie francaise'' (later renamed ''La Vie financiere'').

Works

* ''Survol de l'histoire du monde'', 1949. Translated by Gerard Hopkins as ''A birds-eye view of world history'', 1951. Also published as ''The history of the world in three hundred pages'', 1951 * ''An outline of French history'', 1952. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. * Survol de l'histoire de France'', 1955. * ''Histoire des colonisations'' istory of colonizations 1958. * ''Paris'', 1962 * (with Franz Pick) ''All the monies of the world: a chronicle of currency values'', 1971 * ''Histoire du petrole, Paris, 1974 * ''Le coût de la Révolution française'' he cost of the French Revolution 1986 *”L’Histoire n’a pas de sens” istory Has No Sense Paris, 1965

References

External links

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René Sédillot: ''Le coût de la révolution française''
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